This may bring to mind some of the terrible pictures we see from America after a tornado has gone through a trailer park, but I'm afraid that this sorry-looking mobile home fell victim to a group of young punks who moved into the area a short while ago and have been causing nothing but trouble ever since.

The electrical service entrance is at the rear left corner. You can see the guy wire still attached to the bracket, and if you look closely you can see the service cable ripped down and lying across the greenery and the ground. This isn't the main drop; this comes from the meter and disconnect in a garage.

Unfortunately, this is a fully insulated cable, otherwise the bunch of hoodlums responsible might have done us all a favor by eliminating themselves permanently from the gene pool.

Paul, the picture reminds me that in the western US, sometimes rural rental trailers get used for short-run methamphetamine "cooker" labs. An error in the process blows out walls and takes occupant lives. After abandonment, they often default to nasty hazardous-waste sites. The handsome street price for the drug apparently drives such behavior.

No vehicle involved. This was just the result of these teenage boys' bare hands, no doubt aided by some suitable lengths of wood, tire levers, rocks, etc. (The mobile home was already rather delapidated and showed signs of some rotten woodwork in places, which no doubt made their task easier, but then that's beside the point.)

The service cable was just part of the deal. It's probably a little hard to see if you don't know where to look, but if you follow the still-attached guy wire coming in from the left, you'll see the cable depart from it and go down into the bushes. You can also see it lying across the ground on top of some of the smashed panels.

As for the authorities, I wouldn't suggest anyone holds their breath waiting. This group have been causing havoc for weeks now (although this mobile-home incident is the worst), so much so that several people have called the police to get something done about it. Tne police don't seem that interested in actually doing anything.

Such is the system we have in this country these days. They're probably too busy looking for dangerous criminals who have parked two minutes over their alloted time or who drive through town while committing the heinous crime of not wearing a seat belt.

Oh, and I understand that several people who have been taunted by these idiots over the last few weeks have made it clear that if the police won't act, then they will.

The owner is now clearing the site of the wreckage. As for the authorities, I understand that nothing has been done.

The good news is that two of the gang have moved on, and the ring-leader is now kept locked in his house at night, courtesy of his newly returned (from jail) father. Apparently someone went around to the house and hinted that if he didn't stop his son from causing havoc.... Well, you can guess the rest!